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What happened before God created the world?

by | Feb 4, 2011 | God, Questions

The Bible primarily is a book about the redemption of man, and as such there are certain topics that are not exhaustively covered (c.f. Deut 29:29).  One such topic is what happened prior to “in the beginning” Genesis 1:1. Therefore, we can’t say what happened before God created the world.  Exc

However, we are not without clues and what we do know includes the following:

  1. There is only one eternal being (the Triune God) (c.f. Psalm 90:2)
  2. He has the attribute of aseity (life in of Himself/not derived from anything else/self-existent) (c.f. John 5:26)
  3. That all of creation was made after some time point–rather after time was created! (c.f. Genesis 1)
  4. Another verse that will help us with this question is John 17:5 “Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”

Therefore, we can summarize that before “in the beginning”/creation of all things, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit existed in perfect communion together in their full glory.

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